It must be a slow news day at the Telegraph. Blogger Richard Tyler is filling some column inches with stuff about eBay. Apparently, “the Derby, Nottingham, Leicester triangle” has the highest concentration of eBay businesses, while London figures pretty low on the list.
While I have no way to really refute Mr Tyler’s assertion that eBay is somehow more in tune with Northern market sensibilities than “southern chic”, I’d like to offer him the following thoughts:
- Del Boy was from London. And if he thinks markets are limited to oop North, Mr Tyler should get himself down Brick Lane of a Sunday morning.
- If you think “the Derby, Nottingham, Leicester triangle” represents “the North”, you need to work on your geography: where I come from, Leicester *is* the South.
- Asserting that eBay sellers don’t pay tax on their earnings is likely to get your comments filled up with irate repudiations from tax-paying eBay sellers. Or it will if I have anything to do with it 😉
Thanks to Dan for the link, and the title.
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leicester is so south you migrate to it
every item you have ever sold ever! is traceable on ebay, if you dont pay your taxes your crackers
I always understood that “The North” was anything north of watford gap services.
Its simple 🙂 I originally come from Wolverhampton. Therefore Leicester, Nottingham & Derby are not Northerners OR Southerners, they are Easterners. Mancs, Liverpudlians, Geordies are all Northerners, anyone South of Coventry is a Cockney, unless they are from the South West, in which case they are a Bumpkin (and I luv it down here in the South West, Bumpkins et all, so please don’t take offence at that 😉 )
So there we have it an unbiased summary of our regional English tribes. 😆
froff blowers
firty free fousand fevvers on a frushs fhroth
Brizzol is going North for me. 😀
BULL CALF North!
I’m from Brighton. You’re all northerners to me. Except you Sue, you’re forinn.
Dan, I was at college with someone who came from Brighton, who asked me in all seriousness if Sheffield was near to Scotland 😆
And I hope that you answered, quite correctly, that indeed it was. ;o)
Yeah yeah :-p
*hangs around thread, hoping to be able to say “every planet has a North” before Dan (or North) does*
oooo, but is that right? Been so long since I saw it: it’s eteched in my brain as “Lots of planets have norths..”
Ooh, yeah, you’re right:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0562992/quotes
Sorry, the angels have my brain 😉
naw most times I am on another planet to you lot
BRIGHTON
sod that! cant be done with the
mosquitoes ,tropical disease,, visas, etc
Hoves ok though 😀
Are there any Americans here?
Because the Long Islanders I know think France is a part of England, and Paris is just down the road from London….